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Vienna Teng — Watershed
Album: Inland Territory
Avg rating:
7.2

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Total ratings: 2014









Released: 2009
Length: 4:32
Plays (last 30 days): 0
While you were building your empires
I was still sleeping
I was still sleeping
While you were setting your woods afire
I was still dreaming
I was still dreaming

Now I will unsettle the ground beneath you
Send my waters ashore
Creep into your bed
Find you in every corner

While you argue it over
I am not waiting
I am not waiting
While you retreat to your comforts
I am not fading
I am not fading

I've done this many times before you
Old Shanghai, New Orleans
Amsterdam and Mumbai
Strange new creatures
To scavenge your pores
Oh I've done this many times before you
Ashen sky, lightning storms
Deltas to desert plains
Wartime on every border

I've done this many times before you
Watched the pattern take form
Children your time is done
If you say it's done together
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Poetic chants.
Like it already & I haven’t finished hearing it yet. Great image.
 timmus wrote:

No thanks.  When you play only the most popular music, that basically turns the radio station into Jack FM.

I think jack fm is just another shitty format, and prefer stations like this which play stuff off the beaten path
 dc_zee wrote:

My first listen. Thanks to Bill and Rebecca for playing something (again) that made me look to see who the source was.



I do that all the time, when listening to RP ;-)
 Tomasni wrote:
To me this is only 7 . This is what I am waiting for:
 
No thanks.  When you play only the most popular music, that basically turns the radio station into Jack FM.
 SECA_Alan wrote:

Impeccable.

Stunning.

Gorgeous.

(Not you, this song) 


Unique.  You.  And this song. 

This needs to be played either before or after Sparks' "Never turn your back on Mother Earth" 

Can't decide which :P
Another artist I would not know about without radio paradise
 pinto wrote:
*snip*


wish you hadn't quoted his entire spammy post
 NeuroJoe wrote:


Mr. Pymm, the poor man's Dr. Pepper


Wrong reference. 
Stunning - A whole other level. poetry of the divine 
 SmackDaddy wrote:
 

Mr. Pymm, the poor man's Dr. Pepper
A great tune! For some reason it feels as if I've known this song forever
My first listen. Thanks to Bill and Rebecca for playing something (again) that made me look to see who the source was.
 tcseeley wrote:


Ego or not, it's a pretty good list. Pretty well lines up with my taste. Makes we want to hear the ones I don't know.

 

Then I suggest you go listen your local classic rock radio station and nothing else. 
 Tomasni wrote:
To me this is only 7 . This is what I am waiting for:

[very long list of classic rock songs]
 
Quick somebody get some Pymm particles, this guy is stuck in the past.
 Tomasni wrote:
To me this is only 7 . This is what I am waiting for:

[very long list of classic rock songs]
 

Ego or not, it's a pretty good list. Pretty well lines up with my taste. Makes we want to hear the ones I don't know.
Teng clearly listened to Radiohead "Go to Sleep" and thought it was a good idea.
 Tomasni wrote:
To me this is only 7 . This is what I am waiting for:

<snipped 9s and 10s>

 
You know that anyone who's interested in that can find it without you copying it from your profile page, don't you?
Well produced and very creative!
To me this is only 7 . This is what I am waiting for:

10 - The Beatles - Hey Jude
10 - The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10 - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
10 - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
10 - Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
10 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live in Athens 1988)
10 - Ennio Morricone - Titoli Di Testa (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
10 - Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
10 - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
10 - Shannon McNally - Down and Dirty
 9  - The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
 9  - Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
 9  - Beethoven - Symphony No.5 - Allegro Con Brio
 9  - Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
 9  - Elton John - Sixty Years On
 9  - Dire Straits - Ride Across The River
 9  - Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica
 9  - Dire Straits - Skateaway
 9  - Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumblebee
 9  - Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
 9  - Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
 9  - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
 9  - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Stairway to Heaven
 9  - The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
 9  - Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
 9  - Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing
 9  - The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R.
 9  - George Harrison - What Is Life
 9  - Robert Palmer - Sailing Shoes / Hey Julia / Sneakin' Sally
 9  - Santana Brothers - Luz Amor Y Vida
 9  - The Beatles - A Day In The Life
 9  - Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
 9  - Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude #1 In C
 9  - Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
 9  - Sorten Muld - Bonden Og Elverpigen
 9  - Santana - Black Magic Woman-Gypsy Queen
 9  - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
 9  - Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat
 9  - George Harrison - Here Comes The Sun (Live)
 9  - Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Spring - allegro
 9  - Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Concerto No.4 In E, Adagio
 9  - The Beatles - Revolution
 9  - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
 9  - Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
 9  - Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
 9  - The Beatles - You Never Give Me/The End
 9  - Paco De Lucia - Concierto de Aranjuez
 9  - Ennio Morricone - For A Few Dollars More
 9  - John Lennon - Imagine
 9  - Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Parts I & II)
 9  - Ludovico Einaudi - Andare
 9  - Mozart - Symphony No. 40 - Molto Allegro
 9  - Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go (acoustic live)
 9  - Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
 9  - Dire Straits - Where Do You Think You're Going
 9  - The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
 9  - The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
 9  - Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (live)
 9  - Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
 9  - Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood (Allegretto pas
 9  - Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
 9  - Prince - Purple Rain
 9  - Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
 9  - Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
 9  - Anna Ternheim - What Have I Done
 9  - Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
 9  - Dick Dale - Miserlou
 9  - Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
 9  - U2 - One
 9  - Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
 9  - Pink Floyd - Time
 9  - Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
 9  - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
 9  - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
 9  - Derek and the Dominos - Layla
 9  - Beck - Dreams
 9  - Beck - Dreams
 9  - Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
 9  - The Beatles - Dear Prudence
 9  - Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
 9  - J.J. Cale - Mama Don't
 9  - Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
 9  - Peter Gabriel - Biko
 9  - Antonio Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons: Summer
 9  - The Beatles - She's Leaving Home
 9  - Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
 9  - Stevie Wonder - I Wish
 9  - Aretha Franklin - Respect
 9  - Animals - House of the Rising Sun
 9  - David Bowie - Space Oddity
 9  - Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
 9  - Genesis - Firth Of Fifth
 9  - Mark Knopfler - What It Is
 9  - Johnny Cash - Hurt
 9  - Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
 9  - Procol Harum - Conquistador (live)
 9  - Ben E. King - Stand By Me
 9  - Dire Straits - One World
 9  - Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
 9  - Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
 9  - John Lennon - Watching The Wheels
 9  - Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt
 9  - The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
 9  - Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
 9  - Regina Spektor - On The Radio
 9  - Kent - Dom Andra
 9  - Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
 9  - Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo
 9  - Meyer, Douglas & Barenberg - From Ankara to Izmir
 9  - Peter Gabriel - Steam
 9  - California Guitar Trio - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
 9  - Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
Vienna Teng's music always stops me in my tracks.  What an amazing artist!
Female voice among ambient angel sounds and then dark percussion. What?
8 —> 9 on this rainy morning.
Impeccable.

Stunning.

Gorgeous.

(Not you, this song) 
An astounding and beautiful segue from Erik Satie, preserving and amplifying the mood created by yer man's Gnossienne No. 1. Kudos, Bill.
This tune wouldn't be out of place on Game of Thrones!! I can imagine Cersei singing it.
 MassivRuss wrote:
Pssst don't tell Vienna Bill just put her on right after Ella Fitzgerald...

 

She once said that her label calls the group "jazz" for their German bookings (she found that amusing), so perhaps the segue is closer than you think.
What happend,  Bill?  This is not the normal good set!!!!
 AvoidingWork wrote:

You talking to yourself Romeo, aka Former Member, aka Lazarus?

As any psych will tell you, it's ok; just stay away from the insults.  They're the worst.
 
Everybody in my alien space craft loves this groovy song...  thank you for your words of wisdom, and I hope life is marvelous for you right this minute, AvoidingWork...
I'm a fan of the transition from Gnossiene No. 1 to this.
The music is interesting. Her phrasing, enunciation and voice are enthralling. I lean closer my Bose. 
Wonderful artist.  Very good song.

 

Or Ali Farka Toure.

Edit: Or after Satie, which segue I particularly liked. 7/22


Pssst don't tell Vienna Bill just put her on right after Ella Fitzgerald...
Certain string elements of this song remind me of the soaring grandeur of The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me". However, I'm NOT suggesting Vienna Teng and The Who are in any way alike :)
 t00lur wrote:
sad shit. again . 1 . again

 
go back to your bubblegum/rapcrap and leave.......
 Lazarus wrote:
 big stud Romeo Tuma wrote:
I like this song a lot...  I want her for the maze...
 

Yes, everybody in my church loves this song...

 

 
You talking to yourself Romeo, aka Former Member, aka Lazarus?

As any psych will tell you, it's ok; just stay away from the insults.  They're the worst.
 oldsaxon wrote:
The more often I hear her the more impressed I become.

 
2nd that.  Really impressive stuff.
Saint Cynthia.
 big stud Romeo Tuma wrote:
I like this song a lot...  I want her for the maze...
 

Yes, everybody in my church loves this song...

 
gives me the heebie jeebies, when the moll part rolls on!!!!
ASTONISHING!  This is true art.
Thank you, Radio Paradise, for turning me on to this amazing talent! 
 wolverine wrote:
reminds me of teardrop from massive attack
 
Thirded!
The more often I hear her the more impressed I become.
 wolverine wrote:
reminds me of teardrop from massive attack
 
little bit, yeah.   {#Yes}
Que segue.
reminds me of teardrop from massive attack
Poetic {#Daisy} Rooney wrote:


Yep, I agree.  Because I heard one song for the first time,
I downloaded a bunch of her songs.  Incredible stories,
incredible depth, apparently much too scarey for
some souls on this forum.  Her lyrics are poetic.
Thanks RP.
 


 LizK wrote:
Erik Satie followed by Vienna Teng.  Lovely night music. 
 
I second that!

 atlas wrote:
I can only listen to her as I lay in bed waiting for sleep.
 
pretty much.
Hold on, Babalooie!  I thought F*ing songs were meant to be played while one F*s.  If so, then this is a fine example!  Does it follow that if someone does/does not like F*ing songs ...
 WhiteWater wrote:

That distribution defines a troll? Really? That probably resembles *my* distribution. I tend to only vote songs I like - meaning 7~9 and the very rare 10, AND the songs I really, really hate meaning a 1. Mediocre tunes don't inspire me to go to the computer to vote - or even to go to the computer to discover who the artist might be...

 
It's not the distribution of the ratings, in this case - it's the comment. Gleefully, remorselessly hateful - with profanity.  I'm sure my rating distribution is nothing to write home about, but at least I don't go through a particular artist's playlist and methodically post the same hateful, juvenile slam on every single song by that artist.  To me, that equals "troll."

...i swear i hear john phillips in the undertones...
 oldsaxon wrote:
My little tube amp is doing some rather amazing things to those tubular bells :)
 
My amp from Walmart is lighting up those bells!

My little tube amp is doing some rather amazing things to those tubular bells :)
I like the vocals.  Not so much the song.
Erik Satie followed by Vienna Teng.  Lovely night music. 
Oh Bill, you had me at Erik Satie. Fantastic segue.
More buoy bell.
Here here!
 
kaybee wrote:
What a lovely segue from Satie...thanks Bill!
 


What a lovely segue from Satie...thanks Bill!


 
sirdroseph wrote:


I gave it a 1 too, but I have hundreds upon hundreds of 8-10 ratings as well, what excuse have you got for me? Could it be that some people dislike this band, don't you think that is a possiblity??{#Rolleyes}

 
It wasn't the rating. It was the TONE.  I"ve given my share of "1" ratings (most of which I don't post), and everyone is entitled to their opinions. Using abusive language to state an opinion is, in my opinion, TROLL.  sirdroseph, I have no excuse for you, but I love you anyway. {#Lol}
peter_james_bond wrote:

The difference is in how he expresses his dislike. He posted the same vulgar comment for all of her songs; that is spammer-like, boneheaded troll behavior. At least you try to vary your critical comments.

 

Thanks, peter_james_bond.  I hadn't verified t00lur's history.  And I rather love sirdroseph's comments.  Geez, I should stop posting. Too much stress.

 




 sirdroseph wrote:

I gave it a 1 too, but I have hundreds upon hundreds of 8-10 ratings as well, what excuse have you got for me? Could it be that some people dislike this band, don't you think that is a possiblity??{#Rolleyes}
 
The difference is in how he expresses his dislike. He posted the same vulgar comment for all of her songs; that is spammer-like, boneheaded troll behavior. At least you try to vary your critical comments.

I can only listen to her as I lay in bed waiting for sleep.
love those dissonant undertones in the orchestration!
Love this woman's music!
8—>9
The structure and sound just works.

6 —>—> 8
I never get tired of this song.  This is my tribute to it:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHmesDygwc
 Rooney wrote:


every forum has a troll.  Tag, you're it.  vienna teng, (you should
learn to spell her name right) has loads of talent.  Just because
a song is sad, it doesn't make it a "f'ing song."  Apparently
you wouldn't listen to her musical journey.  I'm sure she's
devastated because of your 1 rating.

 
Don't feed them - and this one's not even old enough to drink.


...this would not sound at all out of place dropped into the middle of claim...
Not always a fan of hers, but I just had a delicious Indian lunch, and this seems like the sonic equivalent of a good curry - rich and full, some contrast, more than the sum of its parts.
I wonder why t00lur even listens to RP, it's obviously far too classy.


 socalhol wrote:
{#Arrow}  10      goddess-like!

 

Yep, I agree.  Because I heard one song for the first time,
I downloaded a bunch of her songs.  Incredible stories,
incredible depth, apparently much too scarey for
some souls on this forum.  Her lyrics are poetic.
Thanks RP.
So much here,should give me goose bumps all over but noooooo !
Just a lot of sounds making me feel nada ! #2.
And I'v tried to like it.{#Yes} next time,I'll spend some time in LRC.

sad shit. again . 1 . again
Sounds a bit like Portishead in parts. In case that's not obvious, that's a Good Thing(tm). I don't think she's trying to sound like Portishead, my brain just has to compare it to a song I've heard before. Maybe if I hear this enough, I'll say Portishead sounds like Vienna Teng. :-)
 
To me, this is rather un-ordinary, and I love it.  It certainly fits in with the mood Bill has created, of layers of powerful female vocals with varying flavors.  Even Tori Amos's cover of a Nirvana song fits well in this set.  {#Meditate}{#Sunny}
 Cynaera wrote:

Troll.

 
I tend to agree. Personally, I find it very hard to rate anything a '1' - partly due to the fact that I couldn't do any of this stuff myself.

{#Arrow}  10      goddess-like!

love it!
 annoffalese wrote:

....throat


 

...thorax?  Nah...
I'm not always in the mood for her stuff, but I am always impressed with her abilities and the overall musicianship of her music.
Wonderful artist who I discovered here on RP.  This is her best CD since Warm Strangers.
Lovely voice-a bit reminiscent of Allison Krauss
Mother nature... more powerful than we'll ever be.
Booooooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnggggggggg!!!!!{#Sleep}{#Sleep}{#Sleep}{#Sleep}
Thank you for playing this Bill.  Vienna Teng plays such beautiful music, and after watching her live performances on YouTube I've been wanting to go to one of her shows for a long time now.  For some reason, hearing this song today reminded me of that.  So I looked up her tour dates, and what do you know?  She'll be in my area 2 weeks from today!! 
 annoffalese wrote:
she sounds like she has mucous in her thorat
 
I am sorry, but you must have mucous in your ears...

Painfully beautiful
 ambrebalte wrote:
beautiful transition from Air to this ..pinaoesque
this tune is amazing
edit January 23 - after Erik Satie it's really nice too, love it!
 
The transitions are almost everytime perfect! Key and rhythm fits perfect. That's the difference with random computer playlists and playlists that are thought about.

....throat


she sounds like she has mucous in her thorat
Vienna has a beautiful voice!

she's my heroes. what a great lady. throwing cisco for this...

oh this voice, im in heavens!


beautiful transition from Air to this ..pinaoesque
this tune is amazing
edit January 23 - after Erik Satie it's really nice too, love it!
Pairing this with Air's Alone in Kyoto was brilliant and raised my rating for this song.
{#Meditate}
Really fantastic
Saw her in concert at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston a month ago. She's truly fantastic live.
Cool stuff.  A little jarring when her vocal jumps to being mixed so close. But a lovely song, beautifully arranged & recorded.
 lmic wrote:
 Baby_M wrote:
I gave one of my sisters, who is a music teacher, Waking Hour for a birthday present, and she went out and bought the sheet music so she could play it for her students.
Neat story. I read somewhere that VT is a classically trained concert pianist, and has been playing since the age of 5.

 
Right you are (from AMG): "A pianist since the age of five, Teng took piano lessons before moving on to improvisation." (What a terrible sentence, yes?) At any rate, the full magilla is here: https://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&opt1=1&uid=SEARCH&sql=Vienna|Teng

Yep. I'm likin' this.
What does this tune remind me of? What other tune that is.
Lovely noise!
Noise.
Saw her (w/Alex Wong) and met her Friday. Wow. Brilliant show.
I     LOVE      THIS     SONG.
 Pyro wrote:
My first time to hear this.  LOVELY.  Tori, eat your heart out.
 
heh heh - respect Tori's talent and if she'd slow the machinery of her mind down a minute, as peter_james_bond so aptly phrased it, she might unfold like this ... but maybe we like Tori tightly wound? anyway Vienna wins on the smooth touch 

 Baby_M wrote:
I gave one of my sisters, who is a music teacher, Waking Hour for a birthday present, and she went out and bought the sheet music so she could play it for her students.
Neat story. I read somewhere that VT is a classically trained concert pianist, and has been playing since the age of 5.

Fits in the rotation, but i would like to hear some... ok,  there comes the sun!


...i hear echoes of not drowning waving in this song...
I gave one of my sisters, who is a music teacher, Waking Hour for a birthday present, and she went out and bought the sheet music so she could play it for her students.
 themotion wrote:
this song makes me rethink my opinion of Vienna Teng

 
me too. this is beautiful. I thought she was duller than this.
love her music so much, but there are better songs on Inland Territory
Gorgeous.  Did someone use the word "majesty?" Yes, that is spot-on.
this song makes me rethink my opinion of Vienna Teng

 peter_james_bond wrote:
If you can quiet the machinery of you mind long enough to really listen to this song you get blown away by the majesty of it.
 
Nicely said.

Who IS this newbie? Easy on the bashing, pal (and the diction). Just tag along with the rest of us and enjoy the music.


paulpaar wrote:
holy chit an amer chine with a brain!
dig her 8

Woo, dreamy.. {#Hearteyes}